Friday, September 24, 2010

TFLN

Texts from Last Night is a website where any users can upload/share with the world the texts that they have received. It's completely anonymous and the only information that's provided in the text is the area code. The texts that people post up are categorized by; best, worst, and random. I've always heard of TFLN but I have never visited the website. After our class discussion, it intrigued me to surf through this website. It didn't surprise me that most of the texts were party/drunk/naked/sexual - based but it did surprise me however, that "texters" send out messages such as this :


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and this...
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It's pretty funny reading all the texts. But I wonder why it's necessary for people to post up funny/random texts for the whole world to see... Is it because it's entirely anonymous? Is it   entirely for entertainment? 
I have had friends who show me some random people's texts from TFLN because their texts were relevant to our nights/situations... I think the reason why a lot of people visit these sites are because not only do they want a good laugh but most of these "snippets" of texts are relevant to many people's situations. When I say 'people,' I mean TFLN users of my generation - college/high school students.. I wouldn't expect people in my mom's age to be 'sexting' or talking about how crazy their night was through texts... if they do, that would be straight up weird. 

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